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4x – 9y = 7

–2x + 3y = 4
What number would you multiply the second equation by in order to eliminate the x-terms when adding to the first equation?

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Answer: 2 and 3.

Explanation:

User Anar Bayramov
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Answer:

By 2.

Explanation:

You need to eliminated the x-terms, so the first step is to focus only in those terms.

So yo have 4x and -2x, since you are thinking in eliminate then you have this equation>


4-2*K=0

Note that we dont put the x variable, since we are studying its coefficients in the equations system.

Solving for K, Gives us that K=2

So.

Multiplying the second equation by 2 results in


-4x+6y=8

When you put them together, it gives you the following


4x-9y -4x+6y- 7+8

and the final equation is


-3y=15\\

giving you the answer for y, that is
y=-5

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